From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a C...(展开全部)

1949年出生于英国，国际畅销小说家，他写的故事感动了世界不同角落里的人，多次获得儿童文学大奖，被联合国教科文组织推荐给全球的家长和孩子们，代表作品有《天蓝色的彼岸》《黑暗的速度》《神秘的易拉罐》《躲藏的人》等。 艾利克斯•希尔在电视剧、电影、舞台剧和广播节目方面也颇有成就，剧本《神秘的巧克力》曾获得英国电影和电视艺术学院奖（BAFTA）。

此书的插画，被授予Grigor Vitez奖和2003年度国际插画双年展“金徽奖”。《The Blue Sky》原作现为日本Chihiro艺术博物馆藏品,Chihiro目前是世界上最大的绘本作品收藏馆，已收有来自25个国家147名艺术家共9，700幅作品。

Ready to relive some of the most daring voyages of all time? Unfold these spectacular cross sections and explore fourteen historic journeys. Open this dynamic book and discover how the greatest explorers in history — from Marco Polo to Neil Armstrong — plunged into the unknown and boldly pieced together the picture of the world we have today. With the help of masterful cross ...(展开全部)

How did they do it? Find out how the greatest explorers in history pieced together the picture of our world that we now take for granted, in this dynamic unfolding cross-sections book! Join acclaimed illustrator Stephen Biesty and popular children's history writer Stewart Ross, as they themselves explore some of the boldest, most daring expeditions of all time, using fold-out p...(展开全部)

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to...(展开全部)

This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world. On a summer day in

康奈尔•伍尔里奇 Cornell Woolrich 一九零三年十二月四日诞生于纽约，悬疑小说大师、“黑色电影之父”，二十世纪二十年代在哥伦比亚大学时开始小说创作，视F.S.菲茨杰拉德为标杆。三十年代起转型尝试写作中短篇悬疑小说，四十年代起开始出版长篇作品，写出《后窗》、《深渊中的华尔兹》和《我嫁给了一个死人》等名作，成为推理界一代巨擘。 劳伦斯•布洛克 Lawrence Block 一九三八年六月二十四日生于纽约水牛城，当代美国冷硬派侦探小说大师，纽约犯罪行吟诗人。十九岁发表处女座《你不可错过》，之后将近五十年笔耕不辍，至今已有三十多部小说问世，“马修•斯卡德书系”、“雅贼书系”等为其赢得巨大声誉，获奖无数，被称为当代欧美侦探推理小说第一人。目前定居纽约。

After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska, where he went to live in the wilderness. Four months later, he turned up dead. His diary, letters and two notes found at a remote campsite tell of his desperate effort to...(展开全部)